ASC vs. TK, EGLE, TNP, SB, GSL, OSG, GNK, SMHI, CPLP, and DSX
Should you be buying Ardmore Shipping stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ardmore Shipping include Teekay (TK), Eagle Bulk Shipping (EGLE), Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP), Safe Bulkers (SB), Global Ship Lease (GSL), Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK), SEACOR Marine (SMHI), Capital Product Partners (CPLP), and Diana Shipping (DSX). These companies are all part of the "deep sea foreign transportation of freight" industry.
Teekay (NYSE:TK) and Ardmore Shipping (NYSE:ASC) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and valuation.
Ardmore Shipping has a consensus price target of $21.00, suggesting a potential upside of 23.46%. Given Teekay's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ardmore Shipping is more favorable than Teekay.
Ardmore Shipping has a net margin of 29.50% compared to Ardmore Shipping's net margin of 10.28%. Teekay's return on equity of 22.76% beat Ardmore Shipping's return on equity.
Teekay has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ardmore Shipping has a beta of 0.38, suggesting that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ardmore Shipping had 1 more articles in the media than Teekay. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Ardmore Shipping and 2 mentions for Teekay. Teekay's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Ardmore Shipping's score of 0.00 indicating that Ardmore Shipping is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ardmore Shipping received 99 more outperform votes than Teekay when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.88% of users gave Ardmore Shipping an outperform vote while only 63.64% of users gave Teekay an outperform vote.
46.7% of Teekay shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.2% of Ardmore Shipping shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of Teekay shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Teekay has higher revenue and earnings than Ardmore Shipping. Teekay is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ardmore Shipping, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ardmore Shipping beats Teekay on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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